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“The Picture of Dorian Gray” – Oscar Wilde

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Recently, as I was perusing our steadily growing book collection looking for something new to read, I ran into Steph’s collection of Oscar Wilde’s writing. It is a massive tome, and being someone with a sick penchant for reading thick books, I decided it was time to tackle some Wilde. Reading the book from start to finish (I told Steph it has over 900 pages and she said something along the lines of “you’re stupid, why are you reading all of that at once?”) the first story I came to was The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I’ll tell you honestly, it may be a while before you see another book review out of me, as I don’t plan on filling our blog with all and sundry Oscar Wilde reviews. Seeing as this is one of his more famous works I decided it would be good fodder for a review.

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